We’ll make sure your university experience gets off to a brilliant start. Our aim is to inspire you and encourage you to push boundaries. Our lecturers are passionate about their teaching and research and are looking forward to sharing their knowledge and passion with you.
Meet first years before you arrive
Meet other History of Art and Design students
Literature, Language, Linguistics and Creative Writing students
Hear from our students
Cara is now a PhD student but began her Brighton journey studying BA(Hons) English Literature. Here’s a film from our recent summer school where she tells you a bit about herself, the course and her interest in women’s writing in the Early Modern period.
Watch to Creative Writing lecturer Dr Jess Moriarty in conversation with current MA Creative Writing student and BA(Hons) Creative Writing graduate Veneta Neale about her experience at Brighton and how her course has helped her passion for writing.
Try a taster lecture
Taster lectures are great ways to get a feel of what you can expect from your course. Below are a few from each subject area.
Humanities: history, philosophy, culture, politics
Micro tasters 3-5 minutes
- Christian Høgsbjerg ‘The making of the black Atlantic’
- Jon Watson, ‘Hidden transcripts of African-American resistance’
- Jo Kellond, ‘The idea of genealogy’
- Zeina el Maasri, ‘The representation of war’
- Catherine Bergin on ‘The voice of the enslaved’
- Becca Searle, ‘Brighton’s Queer History and the Problem of the Archive’
- Deborah Madden, British Empire and Imperial Culture
Longer tasters 20-30 minutes
Literature, Linguistics And Language
Micro tasters 3-5 minutes each
- Ailsa Grant Ferguson , ‘Alas a Woman Attempts a Pen’
- Vy Rajapillai and Sarah on ‘World Englishes’
- Craig Jordan-Baker, ‘Workshopping’
- Jess Moriarty, ‘Virtual Nomads: Creating a virtual campfire to tell and share stories of Covid-19’
Longer tasters 20-30 minutes
- Patricia McManus, ‘Doing Cultural History in the 21st century: Blockbusters and Bestsellers’*
- Ailsa Grant-Ferguson, ‘Sonnet 130’
History of Art & Design
Charlotte Nicklas on fashion and dress history research using surviving objects
Annebella Pollen on vernacular photographs
Megha Rajguru, ‘Fred Wilson and Institutional Critique’
Course changes 2020
It’s been a unique year for all of us and this will be reflected in teaching for the coming year – to find out how go to the Course Content section on your course page .
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